Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 17:01:54 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: awk question Message-ID: <20151005170154.2d15b87e.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <CALfReyefjMTrUW1YhPZC3n2QwPMOVZJxS8oMtgU_jo9sG%2BqgaQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <5611C922.4050007@hiwaay.net> <20151005042129.1f153ec6.freebsd@edvax.de> <5611F776.9090701@hiwaay.net> <56124479.9020505@sneakertech.com> <CALfReyefjMTrUW1YhPZC3n2QwPMOVZJxS8oMtgU_jo9sG%2BqgaQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 11:00:33 +0100, krad wrote:
> Just to add to the pile, if you want to pull a section out of a file you
> can do something along the lines of this.
>
> # for p in {a..z}; do echo $p; done | awk '/^k/,/^t/ {print $0}'
> k
> l
> m
> n
> o
> p
> q
> r
> s
> t
You can see this example in the EXAMPLES section of "man awk".
And you can omit "{ print $0 }" because that's the default
action anyway. Otherwise, your demonstration is fully valid
and a good reminder. :-)
--
Polytropon
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